University News
November 13, 2012
Members of the Case Western Reserve community are invited to attend a memorial service Friday in Cleveland Heights for longtime university staff member Elise Lindsay and her husband, Gregory. The couple passed away last week in their home of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning from a furnace in…
November 12, 2012
“Be yourself” is something diehard Clevelanders know in their hearts. That message is clear from Rust Belt Chic, a collection of Cleveland essays edited by Case Western Reserve University’s Richey Piiparinen and Anne Trubek of Oberlin College. Rust Belt Chic, Piiparinen said, is about spaetzle and…
November 07, 2012
Driving down the road, Lisa Huisman Koops, from Case Western Reserve University, bursts into song. “I see a red car. What do you see?” Her young daughter in the back seat sings her reply. The Koops’ car is more than transportation. It is what the assistant professor in music education calls a…
November 05, 2012
The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History made its own history 25 years ago when it was launched as the first modern encyclopedic-style reference book to chronicle a detailed history of a major U.S. city. A quarter-century later, the encyclopedia still serves as an invaluable one-stop tool and crash…
October 31, 2012
A sailor who won a silver medal at this summer’s London Paralympics describes in a new book how cutting-edge medical technology from the Cleveland Functional Electrical Stimulation Center allowed her to resume an active life after being paralyzed 14 years ago. Jennifer French’s On My Feet Again:…
October 31, 2012
Case Western Reserve students made one point clear at during Tuesday night’s State of the University address: They aren’t the least bit shy about posing questions to the president. Not only did more than 480 of them vote earlier on topics that they wanted Barbara R. Snyder to touch upon during her…
October 31, 2012
Halloween is associated with the creepy and crawly, shrieks and screams and, perhaps above all else, mystery and suspense. For three decades, Case Western Reserve University English professor William Marling has followed these mysterious trails year round, investigating fictitious detectives in…
October 30, 2012
After 15 years in a hospital bed, being poked and prodded by student nurses, it was time to move on. Six training manikins, practiced on by thousands of students of Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, were recently retired—replaced by a new batch of…
October 30, 2012
Someday soon, men and women could be able to direct human evolution—possibly to the point where parents could prevent passing on an inherent disease to their children, or space explorers might become more suited for travel to other planets. In his new book, published this month, Maxwell J. Mehlman…
October 28, 2012
President Barbara R. Snyder detailed dozens of faculty and staff accomplishments during her sixth State of the University Address Friday, but she made clear she didn’t simply want to celebrate gains. She expects Case Western Reserve to build on them, in a big way. After five years that saw the…